What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?